Air & Space Power Journal articles from June 2009

Air & Space Power Journal archives from June 2009

ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army by Robert K. Brigham. University Press of Kansas (http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu), 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-4444, 2006, 250 pages, $29.95 (hardcover). The Army of the...

New Heavens: My Life as a Fighter Pilot and a Founder of the Israel Air Force.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... New Heavens: My Life as a Fighter Pilot and a Founder of the Israel Air Force by Boris Senior. Potomac Books (http://www.potomacbooksinc.com), 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, Virginia 20166, 288 pages, $20.76 (hardcover), $13.56 (softcover)....

Go for Launch! An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Go for Launch! An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral by Joel W. Powell with Art LeBrun. Apogee Books/ Collectors Guide Publishing (http://www.apogeebooks.com), 1440 Graham's Lane, Unit no. 2, Burlington, Ontario L7S IW3, Canada, 2006, 320...

Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan by Sean M. Maloney. Potomac Books (http://www.potomacbooksinc.com), 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulles, Virginia 20166, 2006, 320 pages, $22.00 (hardcover), $15.16 (softcover). A military...

LeMay.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... LeMay, Great Generals Series, by Barrett Tillman. Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave-usa.com), 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, 2007, 224 pages, $21.95 (hardcover). Curtis Emerson LeMay was a straightforward, combat-proven...

Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story by Chuck Gross. University of North Texas Press (http://www.unt.edu/untpress), P.O. Box 311336, Denton, Texas 76203-1336, 2004, 248 pages, $27.95 (hardcover), $14.95 (softcover). ...

Globemaster III: Acquiring the C-17.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Globemaster Ill: Acquiring the C-17 by Betty R. Kennedy. Office of History, Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, Illinois, 2004, 298 pages (softcover). The ideal military airlifter would have high speed and global range. It would operate from...

1776.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... 1776 by David McCullough. Simon and Schuster (http://www.simonsays.com), 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020, 2005, 400 pages, $32.00 (hardcover); 2006, 400 pages, $18.00 (trade paperback). David McCullough's 1776 is an...

Space as a Strategic Asset.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Space as a Strategic Asset by Joan Johnson-Freese. Columbia University Press (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup), 61 West 62nd Street, New York, New York 10023, 2007, 320 pages, $45.00 (hardcover). Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese, professor and chair...

Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam by Zahid Hussain. Columbia University Press (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup), 61 West 62nd Street, New York, New York 10023, 2007, 256 pages, $24.95 (hardcover). If any air warriors in...

War Bird Ace: The Great War Exploits of Capt. Field E. Kindley.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... War Bird Ace: The Great War Exploits of Capt. Field E. Kindley by Jack Stokes Ballard. Texas A&M University Press Consortium (http://www.tamu.edu/upress), John H. Lindsey Building, Lewis Street, 4354 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-4354,...

American Generalship: Character Is Everything: The Art of Command.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... American Generalship: Character Is Everything: The Art of Command by Edgar F. Puryear Jr. Presidio Press (http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/category/military), Random House Publishing Group, 1745 Broadway, New York, New York 10019, 2001, 400...

Mission Debrief.
June 22, 2009... Air and Space Power Journal, the US Air Force's professional journal, is published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, and Chinese. Each version is independent and has an editor--a native speaker of the particular language and an...